‪Les « upgradings stratégiques » des firmes subordonnées dans les CGV: le cas des éleveurs investissant dans des unités de méthanisation‪

Alexandre Berthe, Pascal Grouiez and Louis Dupuy

Revue d'économie industrielle, 2018, vol. n° 163, issue 3, 187-227

Abstract: ?This article considers the analysis of upgrading strategies, focusing at the level of subordinate firms themselves, with a more classical study at the GVC level. This approach develops the concept of ?strategic upgrading,? studies the institutional environment of subordinate firms, and draws on concepts from industrial economics, such as differentiation, diversification, and specialization, in order to understand these firms? strategies. It thus reexamines the category of inter-chain upgrading, i.e., the improvement of the position of actors of a GVC by integrating a new GVC. We confront this proposal with a territorialized case study on the development of biogas production by farmers in the Ardennes. We observe that these farmers are part of the emerging GVC of biomass energy based on their experience as ?captive? actors in the agro-industrial GVC. In particular, they have sized their biogas production units to be autonomous regarding agro-industry. This new activity also has feedback effects on their positioning in the agro-industrial GVC. ? ?JEL classification: ? ?L22, L23, Q13, Q16, Q42.?

Keywords: global value chain (GVC); strategic upgrading; interchain upgrading; subordinate firms’ strategies; agro-industrial firms; biomass; biogas production; agriculture; joint products (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L22 L23 Q13 Q16 Q42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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